The Dublin-based company informed employees Thursday that most of the operations at the packaging facility on East Pike and the warehouse in the Airport Industrial Park will cease in April.

Cardinal Health, a pharmaceutical company, and its subsidiaries have been located in Muskingum County since 1987, according to Zanesville-Muskingum County Port Authority Director Matt Abbott.

Public Relations Director Corey Kerr said in an email about 105 people between the two locations were given the opportunity to relocate to the company's LaVergne, Tennessee location or apply to open positions in the Obetz, Groveport and Wheeling, West Virginia facilities.

Kerr said those employees moving to the Tennessee location would receive relocation assistance and employees opting not to relocate but working through April will be offered severance packages, including outplacement services.

"We are disappointed to learn of the decision made by Cardinal Health to relocate its Zanesville operation to LaVergne, Tennessee," Abbott said. "Cardinal Health and its subsidiaries have been located in Zanesville and Muskingum County for decades. We will work with our local OhioMeans Jobs team to support each and every employee that will be displaced."

Abbott said a personal property tax abatement extended to Cardinal Health when they moved to Zanesville expired about 10 years ago.